Distribution of intestinal parasiticinfection inErbil population

Abstract

A survey of prevalence of intestinal parasites among the Erbil citizen was performed during the year of 2011. The setting is a community inendemic area of parasites infections without the recent previous history of antihelminthic drug distribution. Stool specimen examined for 1505(992(65.9%) male and 513(34.1%) female)were performedfor the period of 12 months (January to December) in the year 2011 in the Erbil province.A total of 1009samples gave positive diagnoses of parasitic infection,including 494 (63.0%) males, 513 (62.2%) females patients.The common parasites found namely wereEntamoeba histolytica, Giardia lambelia, Trichomonas hominisandHymenolips. While the percentage of infection with those parasites within the positives cases were 776 (76.9%),226(22.4 %), 6(0.6%), 1(0.1%)respectively during the year.